Little Walterも好きだけど、もちろんSonny Boy Williamson Ⅱ世も好きであるし、やはり毛色は違っても偉大なブルースハーモニカプレイヤーである。なのでChess /Checker時代のディスコグラフィーをデータ化し終わったのでブログにも一応アップしておく。

Sonny Boyは60年代にヨーロッパに渡ってAmerican Folk Festival等でツアーをしていたりするので、映像はそれなりに残っているが、Memphis Slimの髪型がちょっと気になるが中でもこれが一番好きなのでリンクを貼っておいた。最近流行りのカラー化された映像バージョンで。

DISCOGRAPHY/THE SESSIONS

*Charly Recordsから発売されていたThe Chess Yearsのブックレットを参照

12 August, 1955

Vo/hca with Otis Spann, p; Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, gs; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, d.

7889 　Work With Me
7890 　Don't Start Me Talkin'
7891 　All My Love In Vain
7892 　Good Evening Everybody
7893 　You Killing Me (On My Feet)

24 January, 1956

Vo/hca with Oris Spann, p; Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, gs; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, d.

7980 　Let Me Explain
7981 　I Know What Love Is All About
7982 　I Wonder Why
7983 　Your Imagination
7984 　Don't Lose Your Eye

August 1956

Vo/hca with Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, gs; Willie Dixon, b, Fred Below, d.

8205 　Keep It To Yourself
8206 　Please Forgive (Keep It To Yourself on LP)
8207- The Key (To Your Door)
8207- The Key (To Your Door) This box set
8208 Have You Ever Been In Love

8 February, 1957

Vo/hca with Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, gs; Willie Dixon, b; Fred Below, d.

8108-2 Hurts Me So Much
8408-3 Hurts Me So Much
8408-4 Hurts Me So Much
8409- Fattening Frogs For Snakes
8409- Fattening Frogs For Snakes
8410 I Don't Know
8411 Like Wolf
8412 This Is My Apartment

September 1957

Vel/hea with Otis Spann, p; Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, gs; Willic Dixon,
b; Fred Below, d.
8593-2 Cross My Heart
8593-3 Cross My Heart
8593- Cross My Heart
8594 Born Blind
8595-1 Ninety Nine
8595-2/3 '99
8595. Ninety Nine
8596-5 Dissatisfied
8596- Dissatisfied
18030 Little Village (tks 1-11)
18031 Unseen Eye

27 March, 1958

Vo/hca with Lafayette Leake, p. Robert Lockwood, Eugene Pierson, gs. Willic Dixon, b, Fred Below, d.
8753-2 Your Funcral And My Trial
8753-5 Your Funeral And My Trial
8753- Your Funeral And My Trial
8754- She Got Next To Me
8754 She Got Next To Me
8755-2 Wake Up Baby
8755- Wake Up Baby
8756 Keep Your Hand Out Of My Pocket

1959

Vo/hca with Oris Spann, p: Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, gs; Willie Dixon, b, Odic Payne, d. 1959
9479 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
9480 Unseeing Eye

Novemberl 1959

Vo/hca with Oris Spann, p: Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, ps. Willie Dixon, b: Fred Below, d.

9829 The Goat
9829 The Goat
9830-1 Cool Disposition
9830-3 Cool Disposition
9830 Cool Disposition
9851 I Never Do Wrong
9812 It's Sad To Be Alone

14 April 1960

Vo/hca with Oris Spann, p: Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker, ps. Willie Dixon, b: Fred Below, d.
10105 Open Road
10100 Santa Claus
10107 Can't Do Without You
10108 Checkin Up On My Baby
10108 Checkin' Up On My Baby

June 1960

Vo/hca with Oris Spann, p. Eddie King Luther Tucker, gs. Willie Dixon. b. Fred Below, d. 10266 Temperature 110
10267 Peach Tree
10268 Lonesome Cabin
10269 Somebody Help Me

15 September. 1960

Vo/hca with Lafayette Leake. p: Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker. gs. Willie Dixon, vel 1 b. Fred Below. d.
10415 Down Child
10416 Trust My Baby
10417 This Old Life
10418 Too Close Together-1

December, 1960

Vo/hca with Otis Spann. p. Robert Jr Lockwood. Luther Tucker, gs. Willie Dixon, vd -1 b. Odie Payne, d.
10569 Too Young To Die
10570 She's My Baby
10571 Stop Right Now
10573 The Hunt 1

September, 1961

Vo/hca with Otis Spann. p. Robert Jr Lockwood, Luther Tucker. gs. Willie Dixon, vel -1 b, Fred Below. d. September, 1961

11224 Too Old To Think
11225 That's All I Want
11226-14 One Way Out
11226- One Way Out
11227-4 Nine Below Zero
11227- Nine Below Zero
11227. Nine Below Zero

11 January, 1963

Vo/hca with Lafayette Leake or Billy Emerson, org. Matt Murphy. g. Milton Rector, b: Al Duncan, d.

12113 Gut To Move
12114 Bye Bye Bird
12115 Help Me
12116 Bring It On Home

3 September. 1963

Vo/hca with Jarrett Gibson. Donald Hankins, saxes, Lafayette Leake, p. Buddy Guy, g. Jack Myers, b, Fred Below, d.

12663 One Way Out
12664 My Younger Days
12665 Trying To Get Back On My Feet
12666 Decoration Day

30 April, 1964

Vo/hca with Jarrett Gibson, Lafayette Leake. p. Buddy Guy, g: Jack Myers, b; Fred Below, d.
13210 Stop Cryin
13211 (I Want You) Close To Me
13212 One Way Out

3. August 1964

Vo/hca with Jarrett Gibson, Donald Hankins, saxes-1. Lafayette Leake, org-2; unk b. d. unk b.

15171 I Can't Be Alone -1
15172-1 Don't Make A Mistake (Mattic Is My Wife) -1
15172-2 Don't Make A Mistake (Matric Is My Wife)-1
15175 Understand My Life-1.2
15174 Find Another Woman (Gonna Find Somebody Else)-3
My Name Is Sonny Boy 2

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